(10 Apr 2025)
VIETNAM WAR TOURISM
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam – 21 February 2025
1. Various of visitors looking at weaponry at the War Remnants Museum
2. Various of American Vietnam War veteran Paul Hazelton and his wife looking at museum displays
3. Close of armoured vehicles
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Paul Hazelton, Vietnam war veteran
“It was a war zone when I was here before and undeveloped, you know. We didn’t have any high rise buildings. It was a beautiful town on the Perfume river. I got a chance to see the citadel when I was here before. But everywhere you went, you know, it was occupied territory with our military and now you just see the hustle and bustle and the industry, and it’s just remarkable.”
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ARCHIVE: Hue, Vietnam – 9 June 1972
5. Aerial over US 4th Air Cavalry at Phu Bai base
6. Helicopters in action, pull out to automatic gun firing
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ARCHIVE: Hue, Vietnam – 22 April 1965
7. Soldier in pill box on lookout +MUTE+
8. Various of soldiers on lookout
9. Tanks patrol road, viewed through barbed wire
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Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam – 21 February 2025
10. Ho Chi Minh city skyline, view from Saigon river
11. Various of traffic
12. Traffic passing monument for Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc, whose self immolation was documented by Associated Press journalist Malcom Browne
13. Close of monument behind burning incenses
14. Various of foreign tourists at the monument
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Paul Hazelton, Vietnam war veteran
“I’m just glad that we’re now trading and friendly with Vietnam and I think both sides are benefiting from it.”
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Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam – 23 February 2025
16. Various of visitors at relic site of Cu Chi tunnels
17. Close of scale model showing tunnels
18. Various of Vietnamese veterans entering tunnel
19. A tourist goes down and closes tunnel with a lid
20. POV shot in tunnel
21. Various of tourist crawling in tunnel
22. Various of tourists walking down to tunnel
23. Various of tourists and guide at operation chamber
24. Wide of tour organizer Duong Phuc Sang at Cu Chi tunnel complex
25. SOUNDBITE (Vietnamese) Duong Phuc Sang, tour organizer
“Traveling to Vietnam, about 70% of foreign tourists are fascinated about learning of the Vietnam War. In Ho Chi Minh city, or the former name Saigon, tourists itinerary normally include history museum, the war remnants museum, where memories of the war from 1954 to 1975 were recorded and displayed, and the Cu Chi tunnel complex, the heroic land.”
26. Various of tourists shooting targets at firing range
27. SOUNDBITE (English) Theo Buono, Italian tourist
“It could be a nice perspective and I can understand a bit better how the facts were, how things (the war) took place, how the Vietnamese people managed to fight and protect themselves. And seeing life with our eyes could be a life experience and a better understanding of how the war was, yes.”
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Hanoi, Vietnam – 22 March 2025
28. Various of mural depicting struggles of Vietnamese political prisoners in French colonial “Hoa Lo” prison
29. Various of tourists visiting prison
30. Various of tourists looking at displays of U.S bombings of Hanoi
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Some remember the Vietnam War battles from the headlines of the 1960s and 1970s, others from movies and history books.
And thousands of Americans and Vietnamese know them as the graveyards of loved ones who died fighting more than a half-century ago.
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